Categories Posted inin Technology Gaia Online raises $11 million to finance massively multiplayer online game Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 14, 2008 2 min Gaia Online has raised $11 million in a third round of funding to complete its massively multiplayer online game as a supplement to its...
Categories Posted inin Technology Get ready for live blogging from E3 in Los Angeles Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 14, 2008 2 min I’m in Los Angeles for the E3 Media and Business Summit where all of the hot new video games will be shown off to...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture E3 preview: A Q&A with Mike Gallagher, head of the Entertainment Software Association Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 12, 2008 8 min If there’s a place video game developers show up to show off their wares, it’s the annual “E3” summit. It runs Monday through Thursday...
Categories Posted inin Technology Dean’s most anticipated games of E3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 12, 2008 5 min For the first time in a few years, I’m not one of the E3 judges who evaluate the best games of the video game...
Categories Posted inin Technology Roundup: Apple backdating probe dropped, AMD takes big write-off, Webroot founder missing Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 11, 2008 3 min updated Apple criminal backdating probes dropped: It’s a happy day for Apple, and not just because of the iPhone 3G launch. The criminal backdating...
Categories Posted inin Technology Interview: Gameloft gung ho about iPhone gaming Posted byby GamesBeat July 10, 2008 4 min PARIS—The largest mobile game publisher in the world, Gameloft, has a line-up of six games ready for today’s launch of Apple’s new App Store,...
Categories Posted inin Technology Riot Games raises round for quick-hit 3D online games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 10, 2008 2 min Venture capitalists tend to stay away from funding game developers because games are considered a hit or miss business. But Riot Games has convinced...
Categories Posted inin Technology Yahoo Games shifts to free games in alliance with two game ad start-ups Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 10, 2008 3 min Yahoo Games is the giant of online game portals with 18 million unique visitors a month. But the company is shaking things up as...
Categories Posted inin Technology Why Microsoft is cutting its Xbox 360 price on Sunday Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 10, 2008 3 min Microsoft’s plan to cut $50 off the price of its Xbox 360 Pro video game console is all over the web. The company is...
Categories Posted inin Technology Investors pour $161 million into 16 virtual worlds in second quarter Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 9, 2008 1 min Google blessed the virtual world market with its own entry yesterday. But it is hardly alone. Investors poured $161 million in 16 virtual world...